Curious to see what the Internet looked like in 1992?
"The folks at CERN, the organization responsible for devising the fundamental web standards, are celebrating World Wide Web's 20th birthday by bringing back the first ever website to its original URL.
Although the first website was launched in 1991, it was on April 30, 1993 when CERN made the WWW technology available on a royalty-free basis.
The website, obviously very scarce by today's standards, contains only text explaining some of the basics of the World Wide Web. It was originally available at this address —http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html — but for many years that URL has been redirecting to http://info.cern.ch.
Now, CERN has dug up a 1992 copy of the site — the earliest it could find — and put it back online at its original address.
CERN employees will keep trying to find an earlier copy; in the meantime, you can browse through it and see what the World Wide Web (all of it) was like in 1992."
(Stan Schroeder via Mashable.com)
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The Internet began as a research network funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The first node of the ARPANET was installed at the University of California at Los Angeles (9/1969).
Within 10 years the ARPANET "inter-network" had grown to 30 universities, military sites, and government contractors.
As late as 1983 the network was still limited to a few hundred computers and very few local networks.
In 1985 the NSF met with the ARPA to support the creation of supercomputing hubs. This breakthrough enhanced the bandwidth and allowed for branching out to international sites in Europe and the Far East
1989 was when the responsibility of the ARPANET was officially passed from military interests to the academically oriented NSF. This is when various netiquette rules/behaviors were established.
By the Mid-1990's the Internet connected to more the 60 Countries (more than 2 million host computers), with >15 million users world wide.
Commercial & Business use was not permitted until 1992
By 2001: 109,574,429 domail hosts and 407.1M users of the Internet = 6.71% OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION
By 2010: more than 1 in 4 people on Earth had access to the Internet*
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Curious to see what the Internet looked like in 1992?
"The folks at CERN, the organization responsible for devising the fundamental web standards, are celebrating World Wide Web's 20th birthday by bringing back the first ever website to its original URL.
Although the first website was launched in 1991, it was on April 30, 1993 when CERN made the WWW technology available on a royalty-free basis.
The website, obviously very scarce by today's standards, contains only text explaining some of the basics of the World Wide Web. It was originally available at this address —http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html — but for many years that URL has been redirecting to http://info.cern.ch.
Now, CERN has dug up a 1992 copy of the site — the earliest it could find — and put it back online at its original address.
CERN employees will keep trying to find an earlier copy; in the meantime, you can browse through it and see what the World Wide Web (all of it) was like in 1992."
(Stan Schroeder via Mashable.com)
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The Internet began as a research network funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The first node of the ARPANET was installed at the University of California at Los Angeles (9/1969).
Within 10 years the ARPANET "inter-network" had grown to 30 universities, military sites, and government contractors.
As late as 1983 the network was still limited to a few hundred computers and very few local networks.
In 1985 the NSF met with the ARPA to support the creation of supercomputing hubs. This breakthrough enhanced the bandwidth and allowed for branching out to international sites in Europe and the Far East
1989 was when the responsibility of the ARPANET was officially passed from military interests to the academically oriented NSF. This is when various netiquette rules/behaviors were established.
By the Mid-1990's the Internet connected to more the 60 Countries (more than 2 million host computers), with >15 million users world wide.
Commercial & Business use was not permitted until 1992
By 2001: 109,574,429 domail hosts and 407.1M users of the Internet = 6.71% OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION
By 2010: more than 1 in 4 people on Earth had access to the Internet*
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